Frontlines of the climate

My second cousin once removed is Swedish, and wrote a Christmas greeting to my parents that included this:

For the new year, let us keep hoping for a better and more peaceful world and a world where the leaders learn to cooperate for the good of the future. I must say I feel a bit pessimistic after the Copenhagen Conference on the climate. I would like my grandchildren to be able to experience the joy of changing seasons that we had when Anders and Marianne were young. Summers with sun and blue skies and winters with snow in the garden and possibility to go skiing just outside the house and sometimes skating in the sea and lakes nearby. Now it’s mostly grey and rainy.

I found her unsolicited meditation very moving.

The AP Climate pool also features a conversation with people from another country: in that case, China.

Do you have friends of relatives in other countries? Share what they’re saying about the climate and the Copenhagen talks in the comments.